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...King, Baudouin will continue to do his chores, with his life even more carefully circumscribed: he will sign state documents, listen interestedly but noncommittally to politicians' special pleas, deliver speeches carefully edited by others. The Belgian constitution states that "no Royal Act is valid unless countersigned by a cabinet minister." Baudouin has shown no sign of wishing to break out of this constitutional hammer lock, or of wanting to grow bigger than a Premier...
Fourth Day. The Communist answer to this was a petulant suggestion that Joy had no valid reason for his action, asked that the conferences start up again on the same basis as before. Cried Radio Peking (in its own brand of English): "There is some dubiety that the American side sincerely wants peace...
...words for strong controls. Fred Vinson, stepping down from his traditionally aloof position of Chief Justice, warned that any relaxation of preparedness would have "dire consequences." Secretary of Defense George Marshall, Presidential Assistant W. Averell Harriman and others warned against letdowns. Their warnings were valid enough, though the words had a dreary propaganda sameness, and the flat insistency of a war-bond speech. No one was arguing back, but already there were signs that Congressmen are getting that comfortable feeling. Opined Georgia's budget-minded Senator Walter George last week: "There should be an end to the hysteria...
...poet took these away. It is a lonely and alarming business to feel one's self one in a creation of billions and billions . . . but it is exciting and inspiriting to be among the first to hail and accept the only fraternal community that finally can be valid-that painfully emerging unity of those who live on the one inhabited star...
Hard to Please. Many of the passenger complaints, says Franklin, are just a matter of opinion. "Every railroad," he says, "gets them." Even the ones that are valid, says he, are hard to correct. The road last year tried out the European system of taking table-d'hÔte orders ahead of time and staggering meals, soon gave it up when passengers said that "they weren't going to be told when and what...